"Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for……" — Belle Boyd
"Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer."
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15 Quotes by Belle Boyd
Belle Boyd has 15 quotes on this site.
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A true woman always loves a real soldier.
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I…
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The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
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I only wanted to help my people.
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which…
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I hope that when I commence that oath, my tongue may cleave to the roof of my mouth. If I…
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I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a…
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I thank God that I can say on my death bed that I am a virtuous woman.
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Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.
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Just previous to the birth of my little son, my mind gave way and my child was born in the…
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What a jolly thing military surveillance is!
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My memoirs were written, and a portion of them already in the hands of the publishers, when the startling news…
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More Destroyer Quotes
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one of 112 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem.
— H. Burke Peterson
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built…
— Unknown Author
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Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in…
— Wilferd Peterson
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I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been…
— Anton Chekhov
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The greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion, which is war against the child. The mother doesn't learn to…
— Mother Teresa
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I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a…
— Mother Teresa
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Many people are concerned with children of India, with the children of Africa where quite a few die of hunger,…
— Mother Teresa
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Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.
— H. Burke Peterson
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In the ranks of the movement [National Socialist movement], the most devout Protestant could sit beside the most devout Catholic,…
— Adolf Hitler
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[I]t seems that the Cannibals of Europe are going to eat one another again. A war between Russia and Turkey…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world,…
— Unknown Author
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